"I must be thick! Local, native, national....samesame to me. "
well maybe not so Payscale,
In Canada we can be a citizen, Canadian born, from Canadian parents, also born there, as were their parents, hold a full Canadian passport, even say eh, and love hockey,
but... a "native" is considered to have more and different rights, as they are considered to have a higher level of heritage than we who are also fully Canadian.
So, while I am definitely considered a "local" I am not a "native".
Does not Australia make this same distinction, but instead of first nations they call them aborigines?